What I’ve Learned About Biophilic Design Certification at My Age
I’ll be honest – when I first heard about formal certification programs for biophilic design a few years back, my initial reaction was skeptical. Here I was, a retired engineer…
What I’ve Learned About Smart City Planning That Actually Includes Nature
Living in the same house for nearly four decades gives you a front-row seat to how communities grow and change around you. What started as farmland beyond our back fence…
My Journey with Faux Leather in Our Nature-Inspired Home (And Why It Actually Works)
So here’s something I never thought I’d be writing about – faux leather in a nature-inspired home. I know, I know. It sounds completely contradictory. When I first started getting…
I Analyzed Why Earth’s Natural Patterns Boost Productivity – Here’s What I Found
When I started tracking the correlation between my workspace environment and productivity metrics, I stumbled into something bigger than just optimizing my home office. The data kept pointing to patterns…
I Tested LAM Principles in My Home Office for Six Months – Here’s What Actually Works
I stumbled across Biophilic Design LAM about eight months ago while researching why my productivity metrics kept fluctuating. As someone who tracks everything about my work environment, I was seeing…
Why Ancient Civilizations Were Actually Better at Workspace Design Than We Are
So here’s something that bugs me every time I visit our company’s main office for quarterly meetings: the complete disconnection from anything natural. Fluorescent lighting, beige walls, zero plants, no…
What I Wish I’d Known About Biophilia When We First Moved to the Suburbs
When I first heard the word “biophilia,” I’ll be honest – I had to Google it. This was a few years back, right around the time I was starting to…
Why My Kids Love Hexagon Patterns (And What I Learned About Nature’s Genius)
I never expected to become obsessed with six-sided shapes, but parenthood leads you down the strangest rabbit holes sometimes. It started when my daughter was about three and we were…
Learning from the Past: How Our Ancestors Got Biophilic Design Right All Along
When I first started reading about biophilic design eight years ago – trying to figure out how to make our house work better for my wife after her stroke –…
What I’ve Learned About Careers in Biophilic Design – From an Engineering Background to Nature-Centered Spaces
This whole concept of biophilic design as a career field is something I’ve been learning about over the past few years, ever since I started modifying our home for my…
How Churches and Community Groups Are Leading the Nature-in-Buildings Movement
I’ve been following the work of nonprofit organizations in promoting what they call biophilic design, and I have to say, it’s impressive how much these groups are accomplishing on limited…
How I Learned to Work with My Apartment’s Weird Weather (And Why It Actually Matters)
So here’s something weird that happened to me last week. I was standing on our building’s rooftop garden, watering the tomatoes, when I realized that one side of my body…
Making Tiny Apartments Kid-Friendly: What I Learned About Bringing Nature Into Small Spaces
Okay, I’m definitely not a parent and I don’t claim to be an expert on kid spaces, but something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately is how kids growing…
Following Nature’s Lead: How Our Family Learned to Design Spaces That Change with the Seasons
You know what I’ve been obsessing over lately? How our house changes throughout the year. I was sitting in the kitchen this morning, watching my daughter eat breakfast in this…
Trying to Bring Nature Into My Tiny Apartment’s Home Office (Spoiler: Virtual Trees Are Weird But Also Kind of Work?)
When I first started working from home during the pandemic, I literally set up my laptop on my kitchen table facing a brick wall. My one window shows nothing but…